Ten years ago, between January 25 and February 11, 2011, a revolution of the Egyptian working class overthrew the US-backed dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak that had ruled the country for decades. Weeks earlier, on January 14, US-backed Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to flee the country by a revolution in that country. “History,” the WSWS noted, “has returned with a vengeance.”The events of 2011 represent a crucial strategic experience for the working class internationally. This experience demonstrates the historic necessity of the building of a revolutionary Marxist leadership in the working class, as a prerequisite for socialist revolution. On this page, readers can find the most critical statements and analyses produced by the WSWS in the course of the revolutionary events of 2011 and in their aftermath.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 25, 2021 09:11 UTC